MISCmedia by Clark Humphrey » Blog Archive RANDOM LINKS FOR 7/24/12

»
S
I
D
E
B
A
R
«

RANDOM LINKS FOR 7/24/12

July 23rd, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

ichiro large bobblehead, available at halloffamememorabilia.com

Well if that isn’t the just about worst thing that could happen, local-baseball-fan-wise. The M’s ship Ichiro to the Damn Yankees, for two triple-A pitching prospects. Please sell this team now.
(Here’s a thorough overview of his illustrious career as compiled by SportsPress NW.)
Frank Rich reminds us that if America is really “in decline,” its either the fifth or eighth such “decline” in the past six decades, depending on how you count ’em.
A self described “conservative Republican” moves to Canada and realizes “I donâ€™t see universal health care as an evil thing anymore.”
Monica Guzman believes the phrase “I don’t know” is due to die off, as more of the world’s knowledge becomes a simple web search away. I’m not so sure. Seems to me there’s tons each of us doesn’t know about. At least there’s tons I don’t know about. (Though, when I answer a question with “I don’t know,” people still tend to respond by simply repeating the question in greater detail.)
In-state tuition at Washington’s “public” universities could top $20,000 by decade’s end.
Peet’s Coffee isn’t Seattle-owned anymore. (Did you know it had been Seattle-owned, specifically by the original Starbucks founders?)
Alexander Cockburn, R.I.P.: The longtime Village Voice and Nation columnist and CounterPunch.org cofounder was, at his best, probably America’s most lucid leftist writer. At his worst, he defended climate-change deniers, wholesale Israel-bashers, and French neo-fascist Marine Le Pen.